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KAAP!! Any updates??
Project "Paint it Black"
- Thread starter Kaapstad
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Pictures!!! 
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+1 What's the hold up 
(Not that I can talk)
(Not that I can talk)
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Flipping heck this is a monster!
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The national grid jumping for joy as Kaap fires up his rig...... love it
I bet his credit card company is doing the same
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+1 What's the hold up
(Not that I can talk)
The xmas spirit mostly.
I have been quite busy today on it but not a lot to show in pics. I have been stripping down a waterloop in a 800D case to move over to the 900D. I also removed the 3970X CPU from that system and transferred it over.
If the 3970X CPU does not do the job I have a brand new 4930k I can try later.
The reason I have stripped the other system down is it had a watercooled RIVE mobo but it never seemed to work quite right.
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Like me he had a ton of spare cash when he cancelled his Classy order lol.
4930K?
Didn't think you were bothering with one
Very true.
I will only give it a go if the 3970X does not perform. I think though that it will do well in the new mobo. The waterblocks on the old mobo I don't think worked very well and when things got warmed up there was what sounded like water hitting something very hot and turning to steam.
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Ouch not good! Hearing a lot of stories that are putting me off putting the EK Ti blocks on. Even though I know I'll be reet. I've only ever borked one thing and that was an old Abit AMD board. Screw driver slipped on CPU bracket and I carved up the board lol.
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Will the 3970X not perform roughly the same as the 4930K? Or is Ivy-E a big improvement over Sandy-E?
Personally, I'm excited for when Intel start releasing 8 core enthusiast processors - given that the new consoles will usher in an era of more multi-core support (oh we've waited so long!), I can see Octocore enthusiast CPUs performing really well in future titles.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing progress on this build Never had an enthusiast/extreme series CPU myself, would build an X79 rig if I had the money, but my 4770K is serving me well so far
Personally, I'm excited for when Intel start releasing 8 core enthusiast processors - given that the new consoles will usher in an era of more multi-core support (oh we've waited so long!), I can see Octocore enthusiast CPUs performing really well in future titles.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing progress on this build
Never had an enthusiast/extreme series CPU myself, would build an X79 rig if I had the money, but my 4770K is serving me well so far
Will the 3970X not perform roughly the same as the 4930K? Or is Ivy-E a big improvement over Sandy-E?
Personally, I'm excited for when Intel start releasing 8 core enthusiast processors - given that the new consoles will usher in an era of more multi-core support (oh we've waited so long!), I can see Octocore enthusiast CPUs performing really well in future titles.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing progress on this build
I have a 3930k, 3960X and a 3970X, the slowest is the 3970X which is good for 4.9ghz. When you compare these CPUs to their IB-E counterparts it is a bit of a non contest as what you lose on efficiency you more than make up for on higher overclocking headroom. With a multi GPU setup (3 or 4 cards) the one thing you need more than anything else is raw speed.
I have got a brand new 4930k CPU which I will try at some point but if it can not do at least 4.9ghz (not likely with IB-E) then it will only be good for benching one or two cards where efficiency is more important than raw speed.
You really should look at X79 or Haswell-E as it is not that much more expensive than what you have got now. If you were to go for a mainstream X79 mobo (you don't need everything a RIVE has) and a secondhand 3930k you could put together a very powerful system quite cheaply.
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1.4V for 4.7Ghz on a 4960X here. 4.8 requires 1.48v and anything over 5Ghz requires 1.55v.
Not pretty 24/7 4.5 @ 1.31v.
Hex core is where it is at though.
Not pretty
24/7 4.5 @ 1.31v.Hex core is where it is at though.
I think EK waterblocks are fine on GPUs (I will post when I have done my 290Xs) but waterblocks on mobos is not such a good idea. I was warned off doing a watercooled RIVE by 8 Pack (but did it anyway) but found it did not perform any better than the normal air cooled version and possibly worse. I will find out for sure when I run my 3970X in an air cooled RIVE BE. The other thing that really makes a difference with high overclocks on a RIVE is to cool the back of the mobo with a fan (or in my case put the PC in front of an open window with the back panel off in winter.
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I find a fan on the back of any x79 mobo is a good idea to keep the VRMs cool. They're better cooled on newer boards but back in 2011 I was really struggling to keep my temps low on my Gigabyte board
1.4V for 4.7Ghz on a 4960X here. 4.8 requires 1.48v and anything over 5Ghz requires 1.55v.
Not pretty
Hex core is where it is at though.
You have a good IB-E there sir, if my 4930k gets anywhere close I will think myself lucky.